Conspiratorialist Rand Paul cites IRS memo that seems not to exist

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May 20, 2013 at 12:23 PMMay 20, 2013 at 8:14 PM

Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s detachment from reality is getting worse, as we see HERE:

While the Internal Revenue Service maintains it was not focusing on conservative groups out of political bias, Sen. Rand Paul claimed Sunday there was a “written policy” floating around the agency that said IRS officials were “targeting people who were opposed to the president.”

“And when that comes forward, we need to know who wrote the policy and who approved the policy,” the Republican senator from Kentucky said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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Pat Cunningham

Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s detachment from reality is getting worse, as we see HERE:

While the Internal Revenue Service maintains it was not focusing on conservative groups out of political bias, Sen. Rand Paul claimed Sunday there was a “written policy” floating around the agency that said IRS officials were “targeting people who were opposed to the president.”

“And when that comes forward, we need to know who wrote the policy and who approved the policy,” the Republican senator from Kentucky said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”